Editing Moon Cleft

{{about|the enemy from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|the enemy mistakenly referred to as a Moon Cleft in the English localization of ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''|[[Cleft]]}}
{{species infobox
|image=[[File:Moon Cleft.png]]<br>Sprite from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
|variant_of=[[Cleft]]
}}

'''Moon Clefts''' are a very powerful lunar species of [[Cleft]]s found in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' and its [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch remake]]. Aside from the increase of power, they look and act nearly identically to normal Clefts. Moon Clefts are found during the portion of Chapter 7 that takes place on the [[moon]]. These Clefts have high statistics but are easy to beat when an explosion, such as from [[Bobbery|Admiral Bobbery]], flips them over, lowering their Defense down to 0. Like their relatives, they disguise themselves as rocks, but they reveal their true form when [[Mario]] comes close enough. Moon Clefts attack by charging at their opponents, and cannot be stomped because of their spikes. This enemy’s coloration is similar to that of ordinary [[Cleft]]s as they appear in ''[[Paper Mario]]'' and ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' (which themselves were misidentified as Moon Clefts in Western localizations of ''Super Paper Mario''), whereas ordinary Clefts are pale gray in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'', matching the color scheme of the [[Boggly Woods]]. Their tattle also states them to simply be a basic Cleft found on the moon. They have the highest defense power in the game, alongside [[Chain Chomp]]s and [[Elite Wizzerd]]s.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
====GameCube====
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Moon Cleft|image=[[File:Moon Cleft.png]]|align=horizontal}}
====Nintendo Switch====
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|transcludesection=Moon Cleft|align=horizontal}}

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ツキノシンエモン
|JapR=Tsuki no Shin'emon
|JapM=Lunar Cleft
|Chi=月岩石怪
|ChiR=Yuè Yánshí Guài
|ChiM=Moon Cleft
|Dut=Moon Cleft
|Fre=Cleftlunair
|FreM=Lunar Cleft
|Ger=Mond-Kirk
|GerM=Moon Cleft
|Kor=달가시돌턱
|KorR=Dal Gasi Dolteok
|KorM=Moon Cleft
|Ita=Teschiolito lunare
|ItaM=Lunar Cleft
|Spa=Cleft Lunar
|SpaM=Lunar Cleft
}}

==Trivia==
*The respective internal file names for Moon Clefts and normal Clefts in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' indicate that at some point in development, Moon Clefts were intended to be the "base" version of Cleft while the final game's normal Cleft was intended as a variant, explaining Moon Cleft's usage of the original coloration.<ref><tt>c_sinemon</tt> and <tt>c_sinemon_w</tt>, respective file names for Moon Cleft and Cleft in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''</ref>

==References==
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